Donald Trump’s slogan for 2016 and 2020 – Make America Great Again – has changed as he weighs running again in 2024. Now his rallying cry is “Save America!” The transformation from a nostalgic appeal to an urgent call reflects the determination of Trump and his followers to treat the upcoming elections as a kind of war in which the very existence of the nation is at stake.
Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, abortion could soon become illegal in half of the country. Or so Democrats warn. But it’s impossible to know how the debate will play out in many states. And a study this month by the Guttmacher Institute, which supports abortion rights, suggests that the practical consequences for abortion could be far less severe.
Leonard Cohen was deep in his career when he finally finished “Hallelujah.” Well, the first version of “Hallelujah” — there would be many, many versions when all was said and done. He’d toiled on the lyrics for seven years. Yet when he submitted the album, “Various Positions,” to his longtime record company Columbia Records in 1984, the company’s president Walter Yetnikoff decided not to release it in the U.S. What would become Cohen’s seminal anthem was dead on arrival.
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande focuses on Nancy Stokes (Emma Thompson), who just lost her husband. His passing was sad, but it also led Stokes to realize how little she’d lived during their decades of marriage. Specifically, she’s never been sexually pleased once in her life. That’s about to change now that she’s hired Leo Grande (Dylan McCormack), a sex worker, for a session of passion in a hotel room. But more than just physical intimacy occurs in this space, as Stokes discovers somebody she can talk to about matters she never thought she could open up about. One session leads to another, with a friendship beginning to blossom between the duo. Sex is a wonderful thing. So is getting to know and care for somebody.
I rarely remember my dreams. I suspect this is because I seldom linger in deep sleep. Recently, however, an exception has awoken me four mornings in a row: a vivid dream. I cannot help but wonder if this variance is meant to send me a message. The fact that the dream is identical, from occurrence to color, is even more curious, as if my subconscious wanted to leave no room for misremembering. What follows is the dream.
We are so divided as a nation right now. It seems like we only dig a deeper divide between us as we move through a perilous period. Guns, protecting children, inflation, prices at the pump, new revelations on January 6, and then the recent Supreme Court decision on abortion all point toward a chasm that seems to be separating us.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Biden administration has the right to end a Trumpera immigration policy that forces asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico as their cases make their way through U.S. immigration courts.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a case that could dramatically change the way elections for Congress and the presidency are conducted, handing more power to state legislatures and blocking state courts from reviewing challenges to the procedures and results.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Wednesday that Texas will add new checkpoints for trucks entering the state from Mexico after after over 50 migrants died in connection with an abandoned tractor-trailer found in San Antonio.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state of Texas can be sued under military anti-discrimination law, siding with a former state trooper who said Texas violated federal law when it did not give him a new job upon his return from military service.